Twitter recently enabled a feature that lets you create a custom timeline using tweets you’ve hand-selected. It’s similar to the popular Storifyservice, but built into Tweetdeck, Twitter’s app for power users. To demonstrate it, Twitter has prepopulated a custom timeline column in Tweetdeck with each user’s Top Tweets of 2013. Presumably, these are tweets that […] …

The “second screen” phenomenon – in which people watch television while also using a laptop, smartphone or tablet – has become a key trend in the media business. But despite the buzz around the second screen, the reality is that it’s not something practiced by much of mainstream America. A new year-end report by Nielsen highlights the stark difference between what’s popular on Twitter and what’s popular for the masses. …

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Twitter has made a small change in the way Direct Messaging works, but it has the potential to have a big impact for some kinds users. You can now choose to receive DMs from people you’re not following. …

Reddit users who troll the site looking to down vote posts and write negative comments have found a new target in the 26-year-old Stanford graduate student who proposed to his girlfriend on the social networking site Monday. …